Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Tun-Huang

3.7/5 ( ratings)

More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures, Tun-huang is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.

Language: English

Pages: 201

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Release: November 09, 2010

ISBN: 1590173627

ISBN 13: 9781590173626

Tun-Huang

3.7/5 ( ratings)

More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures, Tun-huang is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.

Language: English

Pages: 201

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Release: November 09, 2010

ISBN: 1590173627

ISBN 13: 9781590173626

More books from Damion Searls

Comedy in a Minor Key

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Amsterdam Stories

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Young Once

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Paludes

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Other Name: Septology I-II

Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions

3.7/5 ( ratings)

A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories

Aliss at the Fire

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Life Goes On

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Melancholy

3.7/5 ( ratings)

I is Another: Septology III-V

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?